Stompergirl's Plague Diaries

 We made a rainbow for our round window Facebook keeps showing me memories of Easters past, happy pictures and videos from celebrations with friends and family.  Our annual Mothers Group Good Friday Games, where the children ran races or played games in exchange for Easter eggs, and Jenny, Astrid and I made or bought, hot cross buns.  Or lovely photos from little school holiday mini-breaks with Jen's family, up in beautiful Bright and surrounds, or eastward at Walkerville . But in the year of Covid-19, you have to just stay at home for Easter. So we did. There were still fun things to do.  Astrid, Jenny and I got together, via video conference, for a hot-cross-bun and cuppa which was lovely. We rang Mum for Easter morning. And for Easter lunch, there was Zoom (video conference) get together with all my Dad's family, where we played games and caught up with each other. Each family cooked their own special meal; we went with pancakes. I'm not really ...

So far I haven't had wodges of time to do All the Isolation Activities, such as baking, sewing or even finishing up the unpacking (tsk, we've been here since the beginning of February). This is because, in  between feeding the family and keeping the house running, I've been trying to work out how to keep my job going when I'm unable to teach students in a face-to-face environment. Obviously thank goodness for the internet. But it's not as simple as record a class and give it to the world wide web . There's who, what, where, how and why to consider first and that has taken a lot of brainspace to navigate.  Obviously, WHY  is the simplest: I need money, and I need to dance to stay sane.  And I do think my students need it too, although we'll see if that pans out in the long run.  It is the other 4 parts of the equation have been much more difficult. WHO ? Well, at this stage, definitely only my current students, because I need, if I'm shouting into ...